RE: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Making planner simpler

[David Lord]

Hi,

Here's a few observations from a relative newcomer to planner (6 months): -

1. I came to planner after looking at various other todo-ish modes, noteably org-mode. One thing that nearly skuppered (did I spell that right?) me using planner was that the table formatting is nowhere near as good as in org-mode, even with table.el loaded.

2. When I published my planner and pointed people at the WikiIndex they all moaned about the big-long list of day pages.  What they wanted to see were the plan pages where all my project notes are. I explained that all they had to do was scroll down, but the first impression was bad.  Perhaps the indexes for plan and day pages could be separated.

Other than that, I love it.
--
David Lord

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> Subject: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Making planner simpler
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> Hiya, everyone!
>
> Many non-Emacs users believe that Emacs is confusing and scary, but
> powerful. The same is starting to be said of Planner. I'm resisting
> the urge to take it as a compliment. ;)
>
> This impression is not helped by the fact that my website has a
> gazillion tasks and hyperlinks. People get the idea that I'm some kind
> of organization freak. I should post a picture of my very cluttered
> desk to dispel that notion. If anything, I procrastinate more than
> other people do because planner.el lets me. ;)
>
> I'd like to make it easy to get started with planner. When people are
> used to (plan) as the last thing in their ~/.emacs, _then_ we show
> them all the other funky stuff, which is all optional anyway. Must
> make it clear that people happily use Planner without Gnus,
> without publishing, without plan pages, without hyperlinks, without
> remember, without detailed plans, etc...
>
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/PlannerModeMethods tries to be a
step in the (right?) direction. What else can we do to make it easier?

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